Why, because the accessories market is a billion dollar enterprise. Can I get the same standard connector deal on cell phone power connectors too (this topics been tackled on/. a few times if I recall.) For example: WTF, why did they flatten the standard microUSB from Razor ver 1 to Razor ver 2?Not like the new one was uber thin and needed that flatter connector, but sure as shit, I had to buy a new car adaptor, and unless you get a cheap chinese knockoff on eBay those things sell for an assraping $30-50 in the ATT (Anal sTreTching) store.
"Ultimately, it's not only about saving money, but also reducing load on the electricity grid by removing needless power use." Bullshit, ultimately it's about intel finding a technical niche for some bling gadgetry that they can envision selling to most every home in the country if not world, are we so lazy we can't turn off our own TV? Pretty much, who gives a shit how much power the dryer uses? ALOT, mine pops a dedicated 20 amp breaker regularly. I ususally run it just as I'm going to bed so way off of peak hours, just for my convenience really, not due to any conscious effort of when "peak hours" are. We're all getting "smart meters" here in San Diego soon, so you can google your power usage anyway, doesn't that make this tech pretty much moot?
Um aren't there any gov'y related peeps on this board? Fiction? not hardly, Cyber-warfare quite some time ago became the 4th official platform just like other kinds (Sea, Air, Land) many years ago and the Air Force has an entire division with standard command structure in place.
I don't think many Navy peeps can get to YouTube. That and many other video,social and email sites (myspace,hotmail,gmail) are blocked by NMCI servers, at least at the installation I work at in the San Diego area.
Well I guess this silly attempt is to gain support from the masses, not the actual military members. They get fed a completely different line of bs to keep them in line and motivated.
I work in a calibration lab and we print out test procedures all the time, we get updates monthly and have to make sure we always use the latest revision of each procedure. This typically means we print out each procedure every time we use it, then toss after 1-2 hours of use. If I could just throw that paper (typically 10 to 50 sheets) into a bin to be reused the next day...well we'd use about 5 reams of paper a year, vice the 10 reams a month we currently use. Some how I see that paper being $5 a page and the printers $50,000 so the savings is moot. At least we save some trees huh?
Oh yeah, its bumpy, it's pink, and it's functional!
Now if someone would just integrate the icopulate and the ibuzz.... oh wait bad gift idea for your girlfriend...you'll wonder why she stops calling...hmmmm:P
Well, unfortunatly civil servants can't be fired, only reassigned, so he's moving the bloated buearauacy engine from his organization to....where? We'll never know.
Some new crew gets to work for these guys, as soon as they are "involuntarily" re-assigned. Anyone familiar with gov't ogranzations knows what kind of good ol boys club that is, I'm sure they will have thier choice of new cooshie jobs to choose from.
The place I work for is full of administrative senior "engineers" most of which should have retired 10 years ago....thier usefullness as real engineers has long since expired, but since the mob isn't great career choice, you can still be "made" as a civil servant.
I DO PAY for incoming messages(10 cents each, can you believe it?), and you can send messages to any cingular phone by using 1235551234@cingularwireless.net for FREE with any mass e-mailer.
I use my text messaging rather frequently, it's kinda handy for leaving phone numbers and directions when your some place noisy like a club or baseball game.
I've received a couple "offers" from cingular and one spam from someone claiming to be related to Cingular (isn't that illegal?) the spam looks like this....
-----start SMS SPAM----- From:36245 sales@mycngularpcs.com(cing ular)Wish you had more Reception? Well you don't have to! Get a Free Antenna Booster @ www.MyPcsCell.com -----end SMS SPAM-----
The email addy is bad, the URL is active. Feel free to hack these guys, or plan a small scale DOS attack, I'm not sponsoring such things, just planting ideas in the heads of those more resourceful than me.:)~
I believe that a shocking or frighteneing experience will stick in your mind while very very young, while the day to day tedium of learing how to walk and talk becomes clouded in no man's land.
I personally remember getting out of the car when my family moved from Maryland to Wyoming. I don't remember the trip, or any of the life we had in Maryland. This was about age 2. I know I didn't have a full grasp of english yet, but I was fully mobile and tactile. (Probably a handful of trouble) We had 2 dalmations in Maryland, I've seen many pictures of me playing with them, but I have never had any conscious recollection of them, even when I was a lot younger (side note:now 30 , damn hottie 18 yr olds are still looking tempting, but milfs are more my style these days.). I've seen alot of pictures of the house I learned to walk in, but I have no recollection of bouncing off any walls or tables, and all the pictures are foriegn to me.
Maybe, I'm really a space alien with no actual past, just fake pictures??? Probably not.
I have a friend that swears he remembers his first birthday quite vividly. I kind of doubt this, but his mom is pretty wacko, so that might have been a disturbing enough event to warrent being burned into his memory.
Anyway, I have to throw the BS flag on the guy above that claims to remember shooting out of the birth canal. While I freely admit a lot of amazing things are not so impossible as they may seem. That's a tad far fetched. You never know I suppose. The human mind is and amazing thing. I'm hoping we unlock some of the "secrets" of the mind someday, however I doubt that will happen any time soon. Jeez just look at the Tech section of cnn.com. Is there nothing technical in the world except the internet?
Bah, you've got an ant/bug problem???
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Ants Invade iBook
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· Score: 1, Interesting
I used to work at San Clemente Island, where they have waves of growing things, first the grass grows 20 feet tall then the earwigs eat all the grass,(fast forward to comments below), then the mice eat all the earwigs and we have a serious rodent problem, rinse, repeat.
Back to the earwigs, they aren't as "smart" or organized as ants, but I've had to SHOVEL dead ones, and even filled a 15 gallon ShopVac(tm) FULL of the damn things. Amazing how heavy 15 gallons of dead bugs can be. Plus the end all get all is, they loved to huddle together inside some of our test equipment, they seemed to prefer Oscilloscopes. I had a guy bring one to me to repair because it "smoked" when he turned it on. Well, in my experience, a power supply failire isn't all that uncommon, however, I wasn't prepared to have my boots covered in crawly things when I slid it out of the case. That's the one and only day I had appreciation for the Navy requiring me to wear boots. ~~Thank god there's not a surveillance camera out there to get a shot of the heebie jeebie, I got the willy's jump-a-thon dance I did at that point, it was a Kodak Moment(tm) I'm sure.
No kidding...try TECHNICIAN on for size....that term is so bastardized I'm embarrassed to use it. I've been a Electronic Calibration TECHNICIAN for 10 years, doing component level electronic repair, but the f-ing secretary down the hall has been doing data entry for her first 2 weeks out of high school...viola, a Data Entry TECHNICIAN, give me a break.
Fact is, most people in this country don't understand complex tactics anyway, and so making a game that had any more tactical depth than a good game of Counterstrike would leave the general gaming populous dunbfounded. Those organized players are already playing organized games of Q3(&/or TFC), Red Alert(pick a version)/Starcraft/Warcraft, etc etc. So what's the use of developing a game for a small group of tactical commanders? Software is written for the masses so those companies can make a buck, and even then some of them go under. That's my 2 cent rant....
I got tired of pop-ups and re-programmed back buttons long ago( a couple months, I think)...I found an extensive block list on the net somewhere and added all that data to my hosts file that dumps all those addresses to localhost (127.0.0.1). Poof, tons of banner ads don't show up, back button redirects might get one or two windows open, but they are they are typically blank explorer windows. Ah, my online experience is so much better. If you come across another site you find "offensive" (but pr0n is so much fun too watch, just look at the stats, 250 movies made last year, 14000 pr0n flicks...hmmmmm)If I wanted to be blasted with ads, jeez I'd watch TV, oh guess I have to buy one first...email me if you want me to send you a copy of the hosts file I'm using.
Uhhh....can't they find a little bin to put a can of Lysol somewhere...this stuff even kills HIV, I think a little mold won't have a chance, refer to this ad I found after a quick google search.
Professional Lysol Disinfectant Spray
Disinfectant Spray-Hospital disinfectant-deodorant is highly effective against
TB, MRSA, and HIV-1 (AIDS virus). EPA registered. 19-oz. aerosol can.
Original Scent 12 Cans/Case $56.19
Fresh Scent 12 Cans/Case $56.19
Country Scent 12 Cans/Case $56.19
Mountain Air Scent 12 Cans/Case $56.19
Crisp Linen Scent 12 Cans/Case $56.19
WOW! 12 cans for only 56 bucks!...and MIRCorp is spending how many million to combat the problem? Please can I have just one million in "consultation fee's" for my suggestion?
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Why, because the accessories market is a billion dollar enterprise. Can I get the same standard connector deal on cell phone power connectors too (this topics been tackled on /. a few times if I recall.) For example: WTF, why did they flatten the standard microUSB from Razor ver 1 to Razor ver 2?Not like the new one was uber thin and needed that flatter connector, but sure as shit, I had to buy a new car adaptor, and unless you get a cheap chinese knockoff on eBay those things sell for an assraping $30-50 in the ATT (Anal sTreTching) store.
"Ultimately, it's not only about saving money, but also reducing load on the electricity grid by removing needless power use."
Bullshit, ultimately it's about intel finding a technical niche for some bling gadgetry that they can envision selling to most every home in the country if not world, are we so lazy we can't turn off our own TV? Pretty much, who gives a shit how much power the dryer uses? ALOT, mine pops a dedicated 20 amp breaker regularly. I ususally run it just as I'm going to bed so way off of peak hours, just for my convenience really, not due to any conscious effort of when "peak hours" are. We're all getting "smart meters" here in San Diego soon, so you can google your power usage anyway, doesn't that make this tech pretty much moot?
Um aren't there any gov'y related peeps on this board?
Fiction? not hardly, Cyber-warfare quite some time ago became the 4th official platform just like other kinds (Sea, Air, Land) many years ago and the Air Force has an entire division with standard command structure in place.
BAH I'm with em NO FLASH ADS, oh wait, they just introduced the new iAD api in the latest firmware...eff me..
Why isn't my cell service free when my effing screen has more ads than cable TV? Oh I pay for that too. dang.
They eff you in the drivethru that's all I gotta say.
I don't think many Navy peeps can get to YouTube. That and many other video,social and email sites (myspace,hotmail,gmail) are blocked by NMCI servers, at least at the installation I work at in the San Diego area.
Well I guess this silly attempt is to gain support from the masses, not the actual military members. They get fed a completely different line of bs to keep them in line and motivated.
I work in a calibration lab and we print out test procedures all the time, we get updates monthly and have to make sure we always use the latest revision of each procedure. This typically means we print out each procedure every time we use it, then toss after 1-2 hours of use. If I could just throw that paper (typically 10 to 50 sheets) into a bin to be reused the next day...well we'd use about 5 reams of paper a year, vice the 10 reams a month we currently use. Some how I see that paper being $5 a page and the printers $50,000 so the savings is moot. At least we save some trees huh?
Come on now, I've never seen any accessory or gadget that is useful, funny, and can create conversation and jokes like this one...
:P
Drum roll please.... the.. ICOPULATE !!
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/icopulate.shtml
Oh yeah, its bumpy, it's pink, and it's functional!
Now if someone would just integrate the icopulate and the ibuzz.... oh wait bad gift idea for your girlfriend...you'll wonder why she stops calling...hmmmm
Well, unfortunatly civil servants can't be fired, only reassigned, so he's moving the bloated buearauacy engine from his organization to....where? We'll never know.
:)
Some new crew gets to work for these guys, as soon as they are "involuntarily" re-assigned. Anyone familiar with gov't ogranzations knows what kind of good ol boys club that is, I'm sure they will have thier choice of new cooshie jobs to choose from.
The place I work for is full of administrative senior "engineers" most of which should have retired 10 years ago....thier usefullness as real engineers has long since expired, but since the mob isn't great career choice, you can still be "made" as a civil servant.
I hope my offer letter shows up soon
I always use
kissmy@ss.com
: )
I have Cingular in California (USA).
g ular)Wish you had more Reception? Well you don't have to! Get a Free Antenna Booster @ www.MyPcsCell.com
:)~
I DO PAY for incoming messages(10 cents each, can you believe it?), and you can send messages to any cingular phone by using 1235551234@cingularwireless.net for FREE with any mass e-mailer.
I use my text messaging rather frequently, it's kinda handy for leaving phone numbers and directions when your some place noisy like a club or baseball game.
I've received a couple "offers" from cingular and one spam from someone claiming to be related to Cingular (isn't that illegal?) the spam looks like this....
-----start SMS SPAM-----
From:36245
sales@mycngularpcs.com(cin
-----end SMS SPAM-----
The email addy is bad, the URL is active. Feel free to hack these guys, or plan a small scale DOS attack, I'm not sponsoring such things, just planting ideas in the heads of those more resourceful than me.
I believe that a shocking or frighteneing experience will stick in your mind while very very young, while the day to day tedium of learing how to walk and talk becomes clouded in no man's land.
I personally remember getting out of the car when my family moved from Maryland to Wyoming. I don't remember the trip, or any of the life we had in Maryland. This was about age 2. I know I didn't have a full grasp of english yet, but I was fully mobile and tactile. (Probably a handful of trouble) We had 2 dalmations in Maryland, I've seen many pictures of me playing with them, but I have never had any conscious recollection of them, even when I was a lot younger (side note:now 30 , damn hottie 18 yr olds are still looking tempting, but milfs are more my style these days.). I've seen alot of pictures of the house I learned to walk in, but I have no recollection of bouncing off any walls or tables, and all the pictures are foriegn to me.
Maybe, I'm really a space alien with no actual past, just fake pictures??? Probably not.
I have a friend that swears he remembers his first birthday quite vividly. I kind of doubt this, but his mom is pretty wacko, so that might have been a disturbing enough event to warrent being burned into his memory.
Anyway, I have to throw the BS flag on the guy above that claims to remember shooting out of the birth canal. While I freely admit a lot of amazing things are not so impossible as they may seem. That's a tad far fetched. You never know I suppose. The human mind is and amazing thing. I'm hoping we unlock some of the "secrets" of the mind someday, however I doubt that will happen any time soon. Jeez just look at the Tech section of cnn.com. Is there nothing technical in the world except the internet?
I used to work at San Clemente Island, where they have waves of growing things, first the grass grows 20 feet tall then the earwigs eat all the grass,(fast forward to comments below), then the mice eat all the earwigs and we have a serious rodent problem, rinse, repeat.
Back to the earwigs, they aren't as "smart" or organized as ants, but I've had to SHOVEL dead ones, and even filled a 15 gallon ShopVac(tm) FULL of the damn things. Amazing how heavy 15 gallons of dead bugs can be. Plus the end all get all is, they loved to huddle together inside some of our test equipment, they seemed to prefer Oscilloscopes. I had a guy bring one to me to repair because it "smoked" when he turned it on. Well, in my experience, a power supply failire isn't all that uncommon, however, I wasn't prepared to have my boots covered in crawly things when I slid it out of the case. That's the one and only day I had appreciation for the Navy requiring me to wear boots.
~~Thank god there's not a surveillance camera out there to get a shot of the heebie jeebie, I got the willy's jump-a-thon dance I did at that point, it was a Kodak Moment(tm) I'm sure.
No kidding...try TECHNICIAN on for size....that term is so bastardized I'm embarrassed to use it. I've been a Electronic Calibration TECHNICIAN for 10 years, doing component level electronic repair, but the f-ing secretary down the hall has been doing data entry for her first 2 weeks out of high school...viola, a Data Entry TECHNICIAN, give me a break.
Wahoo my first ever, pls dont flame me, thanks
Fact is, most people in this country don't understand complex tactics anyway, and so making a game that had any more tactical depth than a good game of Counterstrike would leave the general gaming populous dunbfounded. Those organized players are already playing organized games of Q3(&/or TFC), Red Alert(pick a version)/Starcraft/Warcraft, etc etc. So what's the use of developing a game for a small group of tactical commanders? Software is written for the masses so those companies can make a buck, and even then some of them go under. That's my 2 cent rant....
Freeschwag
I got tired of pop-ups and re-programmed back buttons long ago( a couple months, I think)...I found an extensive block list on the net somewhere and added all that data to my hosts file that dumps all those addresses to localhost (127.0.0.1). Poof, tons of banner ads don't show up, back button redirects might get one or two windows open, but they are they are typically blank explorer windows. Ah, my online experience is so much better. If you come across another site you find "offensive" (but pr0n is so much fun too watch, just look at the stats, 250 movies made last year, 14000 pr0n flicks...hmmmmm)If I wanted to be blasted with ads, jeez I'd watch TV, oh guess I have to buy one first...email me if you want me to send you a copy of the hosts file I'm using.
Freeschwag@(nospam)hotmail.com
If it's free, it's me!
Uhhh....can't they find a little bin to put a can of Lysol somewhere...this stuff even kills HIV, I think a little mold won't have a chance, refer to this ad I found after a quick google search.
Professional Lysol Disinfectant Spray Disinfectant Spray-Hospital disinfectant-deodorant is highly effective against TB, MRSA, and HIV-1 (AIDS virus). EPA registered. 19-oz. aerosol can. Original Scent 12 Cans/Case $56.19 Fresh Scent 12 Cans/Case $56.19 Country Scent 12 Cans/Case $56.19 Mountain Air Scent 12 Cans/Case $56.19 Crisp Linen Scent 12 Cans/Case $56.19
WOW! 12 cans for only 56 bucks!...and MIRCorp is spending how many million to combat the problem? Please can I have just one million in "consultation fee's" for my suggestion?